Answering Auschwitz : : Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall /

Answering Auschwitz : : Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall / / Stanislao G. Pugliese.

More than twenty years ago, the Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi fell to his death from the stairwell of his apartment building in Turin. Within hours, a debate exploded as to whether his death was an accident or a suicide and, if the latter, how this might force us to reint...

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VerfasserIn:
Pugliese, Stanislao G.,
MitwirkendeR:
Ahr, Johan,
Baird, Marie L.,
Bowman, Terri,
Druker, Jonathan,
Farrell, Joseph,
Giuliani, Massimo,
Goldstein, Ann,
Harrowitz, Nancy,
Klein, Ilona,
McClellan, William,
Mellone, James Tasato,
Misurella, Fred,
Patruno, Nicholas,
Pugliese, Stanislao G.,
Pytell, Timothy,
Scheiber, Elizabeth,
Simon, Amy,
Sodi, Risa,
Thomson, Ian,
Vandewaetere, Sara,
Warmund, Joram,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (332 p.) :; 9 Illustrations, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue. Answering Auschwitz: Levi’s Science and Humanism as Antifascism
  • Part One. Psychology, Theology, and Philosophy
  • 1. ‘‘Warum?’’
  • 2. Guilt or Shame?
  • 3. Primo Levi and the Concept of History
  • 4. Kenosis, Saturated Phenomenology, and Bearing Witness
  • 5. After Auschwitz: What Is a Good Death?
  • Part two. Humanism and Politics
  • 6. The Humanity and Humanism of Primo Levi
  • 7. Levi and the Two Cultures
  • 8. The Partisan and His Doppelganger: The Case of Primo Levi
  • 9. Primo Levi in the Public Interest: Turin, Auschwitz, Israel
  • Part three. Literature
  • 10. Primo Levi’s Struggle with the Spirit of Kafka
  • 11. Ethics and Literary Strategies
  • 12. Literary Encounters and Storytelling Techniques
  • 13.Primo Levi and the History of Reception
  • 14. Autobiography and the Narrator
  • Part four. Reflections on Writing
  • 15. Writing Against the Fascist Sword
  • 16. ‘‘Singoli Stimoli’’: Primo Levi’s Poetry
  • 17. Primo Levi’s Correspondence with Hety Schmitt-Maas
  • 18. A Note on the Problem of Translation
  • 19. Primo Levi: A Bibliography of English and Italian Scholarly Writings, 2003–2010
  • Epilogue. Primo Levi’s Gray Zone: A Sequence of Drawings
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Contributors
  • Index

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